The Spring Bear Hunt puts…

The Spring Bear Hunt puts female bears at risk at bait sites and even experienced hunters would have a difficult time distinguishing from the males.
The population on the Bruce of genetically isolated black bears is small and declining and yet you have proposed a limited hunt, which should be disallowed given this dire population decline.
Even one mother bear killed at a bait site is one too many when one considers the orphaning of bear cubs and the sufferance for dependent offspring.
Ecology dictates that bear populations are self regulating by way of what the ecosystem can sustain and does not justify killing.
The hunt is unethical due to the time of year and the fact that trophy hunting should be banned.
Trophy hunting is unethical and a blatant disregard for life, and our province would be better served by putting time and energy into helping folks take up their responsibility to not attract bears in bear country, and to advocate for humane co existence.
The unacceptable spring bear hunt proposal should be declined. Our economy, environment, and tourism would be better served if folks could instead enjoy the presence of black bears and opportunities to view them in nature.
Bait piles are problematic and attract all other forms of wildlife to the dinner table.
Poaching has not been quantified and we know it is going on in Ontario.
Bears are sentient beings and should not be blood sport so called hunted at bait piles or at all.
This proposal is problematic because it is human centric and unscientifically justified and as such is inappropriate for a Ministry that must make good decisions on behalf of wildlife in the public trust.
Your own Ministry has published a document that admits and quantifies the number of cubs you expect will be orphaned annually by the spring bear hunt: unethical!